Grow an underground colony from a single queen. Gather food, hatch workers, assign jobs, and expand your nest. Unlock automation and earn offline progress, then begin new generations with lasting upgrades through nuptial flights and ancestral growth.

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About This Game

A small colony. A growing world.

Begin with a queen and a quiet chamber beneath the soil. Gather your first food, hatch your first workers, and watch the tunnels fill with life as your nest grows.

Ant Colony Idle is a single-player idle game about incremental growth, worker management, and progress across generations. Give your colony a hands-on start, then build toward automated production and return to new resources.

Give every worker a purpose

Send ants to food sources, organize construction crews, and develop your fungus garden. Food, population, and expansion compete for your attention. Improve production first, or invest in the next chamber? Adjust your workforce as your colony grows.

Build deeper beneath the soil

Expand through storage chambers, nurseries, and fungus gardens to unlock new capabilities. Send expeditions in search of food sources, and turn each new chamber into the beginning of another cycle of growth.

Carry progress into the next generation

Choose when to take a nuptial flight and start again with amber memories. Shape your colony through legacy upgrades, then undertake a Great Migration to earn ancestral growth that lasts across eras.

Return at your own pace

Watch black ants work through warm, hand-drawn caverns. Buy an upgrade, make your next plan, and step away for a while. Capped offline earnings help you continue building when you return.

  • Grow from hands-on clicking toward automated production.
  • Hatch workers and balance gathering, construction, and fungus farming.
  • Expand your chambers and send expeditions to discover food sources.
  • Progress through nuptial flights, legacy upgrades, and Great Migrations.
  • Explore a hand-drawn underground world with flat inked ants and delicate hatching.
  • Earn offline progress within the game's offline limits.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was used for pre-generated Steam store promotional artwork, library artwork, and application icons. No AI content is generated during gameplay, and the game does not connect to external AI services.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
    • Processor: Dual-core processor, 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible graphics
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Keyboard and mouse required. Estimated requirements; subject to change before release.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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